SENTENCING TODAY IN KAREN BUCKLEY MURDER CASE.

08 September 2015

The judge who will today sentence the man who murdered
Cork student Karen Buckley will take into account
the devastation caused to her family.
It's understood that statements from three members of her family
were submitted to Judge Lady Rae after 21-year old
Alexander Pacteau pleaded guilty to murdering
the Mourneabbey student nurse in Glasgow last April.
He`ll receive a mandatory life sentence but the judge will set a
minimum time that he must serve before being considered for parole.
Journalists have been granted permission to live tweet from
this morning's hearing at Glasgow High Court and Cork`s 96FM
senior news reporter Fiona Donnelly is there.
Speaking after Pacteua pleaded guilty- Karen's father John ,
spoke of the family's heartache...